Virginia Dwan (born October 18, 1931) is an American art collector, art patron, philanthropist and visionary founder of the Dwan Light Sanctuary in Montezuma, New Mexico. A former gallerist, owner and executive director of the Dwan Gallery Los Angeles (1959–1967) and Dwan Gallery New York (1965–1971), a contemporary art gallery distinguished for its ground breaking exhibitions 10 and Earth Works, that helped identify the American movements of Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, and Land Art. Among the artists Dwan represented are Carl Andre, Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Sol LeWitt, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, William Anastasi, Charles Ross and Fred Sandback.
